Not necessarily spent more. I have observed superior results in the graphic design and animation field when you get enough hungry artsy interns working on the right pieces and with just the right balance of amphetamines and sleep deprivation.
Hell, multiple Chrome ads and web applications actively *force* installation. They even intentionally circumvent centrally managed applications by installing directly into the USER's PROFILE when rights to install to SYSTEM are not allowed. It used to be a huge shitshow when I managed Citrix Metaframe and ZenApp infrastructure because of the combination of circumvention and Chrome's 10,000's of nested folders cache killed roaming profile performance.
Training programs for LEOs is a proven failed endeavor. They can't even figure out that a diabetic blowing a 3+% BAC (in the coma / death range) on a breathalizer while telling them they are sober is in fact a diabetic and that is a thing with ketone levels.
You're saying a publisher can't give early access passes to allow the reviewer to buy the game?
So what, you hand out a few passes to people who aren't actually reviewers because they run some bit about being a reviewer. So you get money from a few die hard fans a little earlier. Oh no! That would be terrible for the developer and the people involved. On the other hand, making everyone pay reduces those false reviewer scams by 99.9% instantly.
Euler-Lagrange equations and the parsimonious nature of well, nature, have been well understood for quite sometime.
We walk upright on two legs because it is more efficient than walking on four legs. The downside is it needs a larger brain to maintain balance. The upside is the larger brain allows a narrow margin of us to work smarter instead of harder.
Or reviewers could you know, like buy the games. If you can pay the salary for a lower to mid-tier journalist ($35-80k) you can certainly afford a few thousand a year in OpEx to buy the damn games they test.
Targeting a school at a time shouldn't have required acquiring another company to learn "this one neat trick". This is how advertisers and vendors have operated for decades towards high schools.
This is just more evidence of how tone deaf Silicon Valley and especially Facebook are to general social skills, just as they are towards privacy. Hell, the whole approach sounds like Marketing 101 case study examples. But gaining such knowledge requires studying and picking up a book.
I guess Agile isn't getting the job done, but this is just another in a long list of make work methodologies programmers are deeply entrenched in doing in order to make their jobs perpetual. Also, it's a great hedge for the CPU industry which doesn't have any killer apps to further justify increased computational capacity for the average user. In smartphone land, the approach to forced obsolescence is security / OS updates being withheld from consumers quite maliciously. For desktops and laptops, the update genie is long out of the bottle, so you have to come up with some other way to make people's computers slow. Honeypot code is definitely a new way to do exactly that.
The downfall of Waterfall is that eventually, you can have a complete and working product. But nobody wants to make a Windows XP or Office 2003 that works forever and gets the job done.
Supply and demand assumes rational and knowledgeable consumers, which we don't have. It also assumes a naturally limited supply of widgets, rather than artificial production limits. It also assumes competition rather than price fixing. The flagship and midrange smartphone markets exist in a state of price fixing by the major players. Even OnePlus has jumped on the bandwagon of artificial price inflation to get better treatment from their upstream OEMs.
This is by far not the first time Wells Fargo has used software to harm their customers. They do it constantly. Their software developers should be in prison for conspiracy along with management who called for certain software features and configuration. None of these things happen at this scale without intentionally malicious software. There just aren't enough crooked managers across the business units to pull it off.
2012 - Racism - charging various shades of brown people higher interest automagically https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wells-lending-settlement/wells-fargo-to-pay-175-million-in-race-discrimination-probe-idUSBRE86B0V220120712
2016 - Shoddy underwriting - again, you have to rig your software to let this kind of thing through https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-bank-agrees-pay-12-billion-improper-mortgage-lending-practices
2017 - Repo'ing service members' cars - again, disproportionately strikes minorities and similar low incomes https://money.cnn.com/2017/11/14/investing/wells-fargo-repossess-cars-military/index.html?iid=EL
2018 - More Racism against brown people https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/27/investing/wells-fargo-sacramento-lawsuit-discriminatory-lending/index.html
Best high school history teacher quote, "funny how all the anti-conformists with all their unique opinions and style wear the same clothes, listen to the same music, and hang out with each other."
I would think it would run afoul of consumer protection / bait and switch laws depending on how the timing of the transaction changed value at time of execution versus purchase. The USD is our currently legally accepted metric for such things.
I'll continue with the "consumable" model of Netflix because of their strong consumer-centric approach, pricing, and execution. If it's not on Netflix, it's getting pirated. Period. I don't subscribe to streaming music and continue to obtain what I want through alternate channels because the pricing and service models are garbage. The same goes for movies and television -- GoT, Westworld -- I still watch them, but HBO's long history of overpriced mediocre service and not syndicating content with peers means I won't give them my money.
By the same token, if Netflix pulled a Google and started to slip into pure, obvious evil, they're out as well, and every content producer can be assured piracy will tick back up. I know I would at least and it would be a bit of a movement.
A more interesting take on ownership would be the discussion about owning purchased content (e.g. Amazon Prime purchased movies) via a trust. Can we have content CO-OPs?
Cancer is a huge money industry for medicine. This is why the huge focus is on screening / early detection, because those allow tons of unnecessary treatment for perfectly healthy people. People get done with treatment and get told they're in the clear. Everybody is happy and celebrates. Nobody sues for fraud when nothing was wrong in the first place.
Walmart built their empire on 4% gross margins on most products at every day pricing. They make their employees employees.
Amazon by contrast uses price manipulation practices which would be considered deceptive in most states while abusing the independent contractor model for laborers.
Walmart is a terrible company, but Amazon is worse and more internationally malicious.
Now that AWS is profitable, every brick and mortar retailer is on there way out of AWS and into GCP and Azure. Walmart made the "stop putting money into a malicious competitor's hands" over a year ago. They're just now done with internal PoCs and such to validate migration plans.
Nobody really likes doing business with Amazon at the corporate tier because you never know when Jeff is going to decide to consume your market for himself. Bezos need to get a fluffy white cat to complete the Bond villain thing he has going.
You mean to say the software handles refreshing the environment with better, improved software and hardware while automatically removing the legacy hardware.
Bitching about aging, death, and defects is ignoring the need for progress. Gerontology and related longevity fields are for narcissists too short sighted to see the ultimate harms.
This whole thread only serves to prove the loss incurred when programming became a comoditized and an area of vocational specialization rather than brilliant people with special additional skills and adaptability.
Specialization is good for society in that it produces lots of useful idiots who would otherwise be unemployable. It must still be recognized there is a separate tier of genius whose expression is often repressed due to the cacophony of the ignorant masses. This has resulted in languages like PHP and development methods like Agile. Disposable, filthy things designed to allow the mundanes to perform mediocrity and be useful.
There are probably hundreds if not thousands of brilliant electrical engineering / microprocessor programmers with Michael Abrash's cleverness, but he's the name and the face because he collaborated on a few industry changing game titles. Those are the kinds or people who should be steering programming and operating systems, but they'll never be able to heard over Torvald's rabid fandom.
Should the desperation of radio not be a lesson for the modern marketing shills like Google and Facebook? It's a terrible model to build an empire not on providing products and services but on selling out to marketing. It is the most parasitic of American ways.
This is where Microsoft and Apple differ. They provide the populous with genuine products and services. Too bad the unwashed masses are poor judges of merit to exist.
*Side note: not treason the crime as defined in the constitution, but in the more general definition of the word. Crimes would include the violation of civil rights, violations of oath of office as well as any other laws covering actions in direct attacks on law / persons.
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Not necessarily spent more. I have observed superior results in the graphic design and animation field when you get enough hungry artsy interns working on the right pieces and with just the right balance of amphetamines and sleep deprivation.
Hell, multiple Chrome ads and web applications actively *force* installation. They even intentionally circumvent centrally managed applications by installing directly into the USER's PROFILE when rights to install to SYSTEM are not allowed. It used to be a huge shitshow when I managed Citrix Metaframe and ZenApp infrastructure because of the combination of circumvention and Chrome's 10,000's of nested folders cache killed roaming profile performance.
...while they make NSA interns count blades of grass in old images of Pablo Escobar's estate.
Training programs for LEOs is a proven failed endeavor. They can't even figure out that a diabetic blowing a 3+% BAC (in the coma / death range) on a breathalizer while telling them they are sober is in fact a diabetic and that is a thing with ketone levels.
But the shake machine is broken or being cleaned. What quantum entanglement fuckery is this?
You're saying a publisher can't give early access passes to allow the reviewer to buy the game?
So what, you hand out a few passes to people who aren't actually reviewers because they run some bit about being a reviewer. So you get money from a few die hard fans a little earlier. Oh no! That would be terrible for the developer and the people involved. On the other hand, making everyone pay reduces those false reviewer scams by 99.9% instantly.
Euler-Lagrange equations and the parsimonious nature of well, nature, have been well understood for quite sometime.
We walk upright on two legs because it is more efficient than walking on four legs. The downside is it needs a larger brain to maintain balance. The upside is the larger brain allows a narrow margin of us to work smarter instead of harder.
Or reviewers could you know, like buy the games. If you can pay the salary for a lower to mid-tier journalist ($35-80k) you can certainly afford a few thousand a year in OpEx to buy the damn games they test.
Targeting a school at a time shouldn't have required acquiring another company to learn "this one neat trick". This is how advertisers and vendors have operated for decades towards high schools.
This is just more evidence of how tone deaf Silicon Valley and especially Facebook are to general social skills, just as they are towards privacy. Hell, the whole approach sounds like Marketing 101 case study examples. But gaining such knowledge requires studying and picking up a book.
I guess Agile isn't getting the job done, but this is just another in a long list of make work methodologies programmers are deeply entrenched in doing in order to make their jobs perpetual. Also, it's a great hedge for the CPU industry which doesn't have any killer apps to further justify increased computational capacity for the average user. In smartphone land, the approach to forced obsolescence is security / OS updates being withheld from consumers quite maliciously. For desktops and laptops, the update genie is long out of the bottle, so you have to come up with some other way to make people's computers slow. Honeypot code is definitely a new way to do exactly that.
The downfall of Waterfall is that eventually, you can have a complete and working product. But nobody wants to make a Windows XP or Office 2003 that works forever and gets the job done.
Supply and demand assumes rational and knowledgeable consumers, which we don't have. It also assumes a naturally limited supply of widgets, rather than artificial production limits. It also assumes competition rather than price fixing. The flagship and midrange smartphone markets exist in a state of price fixing by the major players. Even OnePlus has jumped on the bandwagon of artificial price inflation to get better treatment from their upstream OEMs.
This is by far not the first time Wells Fargo has used software to harm their customers. They do it constantly. Their software developers should be in prison for conspiracy along with management who called for certain software features and configuration. None of these things happen at this scale without intentionally malicious software. There just aren't enough crooked managers across the business units to pull it off.
2012 - Racism - charging various shades of brown people higher interest automagically
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wells-lending-settlement/wells-fargo-to-pay-175-million-in-race-discrimination-probe-idUSBRE86B0V220120712
2016 - Shoddy underwriting - again, you have to rig your software to let this kind of thing through
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-bank-agrees-pay-12-billion-improper-mortgage-lending-practices
2017 - Repo'ing service members' cars - again, disproportionately strikes minorities and similar low incomes
https://money.cnn.com/2017/11/14/investing/wells-fargo-repossess-cars-military/index.html?iid=EL
2018 - More Racism against brown people
https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/27/investing/wells-fargo-sacramento-lawsuit-discriminatory-lending/index.html
Best high school history teacher quote, "funny how all the anti-conformists with all their unique opinions and style wear the same clothes, listen to the same music, and hang out with each other."
I would think it would run afoul of consumer protection / bait and switch laws depending on how the timing of the transaction changed value at time of execution versus purchase. The USD is our currently legally accepted metric for such things.
I'll continue with the "consumable" model of Netflix because of their strong consumer-centric approach, pricing, and execution. If it's not on Netflix, it's getting pirated. Period. I don't subscribe to streaming music and continue to obtain what I want through alternate channels because the pricing and service models are garbage. The same goes for movies and television -- GoT, Westworld -- I still watch them, but HBO's long history of overpriced mediocre service and not syndicating content with peers means I won't give them my money.
By the same token, if Netflix pulled a Google and started to slip into pure, obvious evil, they're out as well, and every content producer can be assured piracy will tick back up. I know I would at least and it would be a bit of a movement.
A more interesting take on ownership would be the discussion about owning purchased content (e.g. Amazon Prime purchased movies) via a trust. Can we have content CO-OPs?
Dammit, wrong link copied over.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-case-against-early-cancer-detection/
Cancer is a huge money industry for medicine. This is why the huge focus is on screening / early detection, because those allow tons of unnecessary treatment for perfectly healthy people. People get done with treatment and get told they're in the clear. Everybody is happy and celebrates. Nobody sues for fraud when nothing was wrong in the first place.
https://qz.com/1335348/google-is-building-virtual-agents-to-handle-call-centers-grunt-work/
Walmart built their empire on 4% gross margins on most products at every day pricing. They make their employees employees.
Amazon by contrast uses price manipulation practices which would be considered deceptive in most states while abusing the independent contractor model for laborers.
Walmart is a terrible company, but Amazon is worse and more internationally malicious.
Now that AWS is profitable, every brick and mortar retailer is on there way out of AWS and into GCP and Azure. Walmart made the "stop putting money into a malicious competitor's hands" over a year ago. They're just now done with internal PoCs and such to validate migration plans.
Nobody really likes doing business with Amazon at the corporate tier because you never know when Jeff is going to decide to consume your market for himself. Bezos need to get a fluffy white cat to complete the Bond villain thing he has going.
You mean to say the software handles refreshing the environment with better, improved software and hardware while automatically removing the legacy hardware.
Bitching about aging, death, and defects is ignoring the need for progress. Gerontology and related longevity fields are for narcissists too short sighted to see the ultimate harms.
This whole thread only serves to prove the loss incurred when programming became a comoditized and an area of vocational specialization rather than brilliant people with special additional skills and adaptability.
Specialization is good for society in that it produces lots of useful idiots who would otherwise be unemployable. It must still be recognized there is a separate tier of genius whose expression is often repressed due to the cacophony of the ignorant masses. This has resulted in languages like PHP and development methods like Agile. Disposable, filthy things designed to allow the mundanes to perform mediocrity and be useful.
There are probably hundreds if not thousands of brilliant electrical engineering / microprocessor programmers with Michael Abrash's cleverness, but he's the name and the face because he collaborated on a few industry changing game titles. Those are the kinds or people who should be steering programming and operating systems, but they'll never be able to heard over Torvald's rabid fandom.
Almost as much bullshit and low quality in the premise of this posting as asphalt and the whole asphalt lobbying and astroturfing.
Should the desperation of radio not be a lesson for the modern marketing shills like Google and Facebook? It's a terrible model to build an empire not on providing products and services but on selling out to marketing. It is the most parasitic of American ways.
This is where Microsoft and Apple differ. They provide the populous with genuine products and services. Too bad the unwashed masses are poor judges of merit to exist.
So it doesn't know where the nearest gas station is?
*Side note: not treason the crime as defined in the constitution, but in the more general definition of the word. Crimes would include the violation of civil rights, violations of oath of office as well as any other laws covering actions in direct attacks on law / persons.